Proverbs & Sayings

GOD AND FATE

1. God governs the whole world [All's right with the world].
2. God knows the truth [said by a person who is unjustly accused].
3. God is a just judge.
4. The Lord will provide [help].
5. It is fated [foreordained].
6. Everything is predestined.
7. Man thinks, and God laughs [Man proposes and God disposes].
8. God takes with one hand, and gives with the other.
9. God sends the remedy before the disease.
10. Whom God wishes to succor, men cannot destroy.
11. When God wishes to give, he gives bread and butter; when he does not wish to, he does
not give even bread.

WISDOM AND FOLLY.

1. Where there is a knowledge of the Scriptures, there is wisdom.

2. The Scriptures have no bottom [require endless study].
3. A knowledge of the Scriptures is the best wares.
4. Where you need intellect, physical strength will not do.
5. A wise man builds two words out of one [understands two words when one has been
spoken].

MORALITY AND ETHICS, CAUTION AND PRUDENCE.

1. See, hear, and be silent!

2. Better caution at first than tears afterwards.

CONCORD, STRIFE.

1. Before one can know a person, one has to live with him.